Forum security and log-in issues

Forum security and log-in issues

in Forum and Website Bugs

Posted by: Raphael.9286

Raphael.9286

Ok, this much is fact, I pressume: The log-in policy of this forum is a friggin’ royal pain in the posterior. If the forum server doesn’t know you at all (i.e. you’re completely logged out), you can at least read stuff without any limitations. But once you log in, you’re forced to log in every day over and over again if you want to continue reading. I would understand being forced to log in again if I want to make a new post, but just to read stuff?

The real issue here is this: For good reason, I don’t have my game account password stored in the browser password cache. After all, in the not inconceivable case that my machine is compromised, be it by a virus or physically, the browser password cache is one of the obvious and primary targets of opportunity. On the other hand, I have generated a strong and unique password for GW2, so I have to retrieve it from KeePass every day for the purposes of reading these forums. The more often this happens, the more tempted I become to just store it in the browser password cache.

So the question is: Is there any way, any way at all to either make the forum log-in last longer (obvious clue see here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/forum/Session-Cookie-1-year-TTL-Forces-Re-login ), for example by setting a user cookie whose TTL is refreshed each time one visits the forum or to dissociated the game account from the forum account, i.e. having a separate forum password, which, when compromised, wouldn’t also compromise the game account, and thus could be either made easier to memorize or savely stored in the browser password cache?